Scientific standards, measurement etc

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications.

These notes describe how to average and fit numerical data that have been obtained either by simulation or measurement.

This thesis introduces readers to the Standard Model, the top quark and its properties, before explaining the concept of spin correlation measurement.

This book discusses a novel and high-rate-capable micro pattern gaseous detector of the Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GAS detector) type.

The goal of the project presented in this book is to detect neutrinos created by resonant interactions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays on the CMB photon field filling the Universe.

This volume contains five articles describing the mission and its instruments.

The work presented in this book is a major step towards understanding and eventually suppressing background in the direct search for dark matter particles scattering off germanium detectors.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Higgs boson physics.

This book lays out a new, general theory of light propagation and imaging through Earth's turbulent atmosphere.

This edited book contains invited papers from renowned experts working in the field of Wearable Electronics Sensors.

This book gives the background to differential-pressure flow measurement and goes through the requirements explaining the reason for them.

This book presents recent progresses in control, automation, robotics and measuring techniques.

This book presents recent progresses in control, automation, robotics, and measuring techniques.

This book presents recent progresses in control, automation, robotics and measuring techniques.

This book presents the theory of quantum effects used in metrology and results of the author's own research in the field of quantum electronics.

This comprehensive volume summarizes and structures the multitude of results obtained at the LHC in its first running period and draws the grand picture of today's physics at a hadron collider.

This book is an attempt to bridge the gap between the instrumental principles of multi-dimensional time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and typical applications of the technique.

This Thesis describes the first measurement of, and constraints on, Higgs boson production in the vector boson fusion mode, where the Higgs decays to b quarks (the most common decay channel), at the LHC.

This book is devoted to the analysis of measurement signals which requires specific mathematical operations like Convolution, Deconvolution, Laplace, Fourier, Hilbert, Wavelet or Z transform which are all presented in the present book.

This book describes new and efficient calorimetric measurement methods, which can be used to accurately follow the chemical kinetics of liquid phase reaction systems.

This thesis describes novel approaches and implementation of high-resolution microscopy in the extreme ultraviolet light regime.

Describes the instruments and initial results of the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) at the Big Bear Solar Observatory.

This volume presents measurement uncertainty and uncertainty budgets in a form accessible to practicing engineers and engineering students from across a wide range of disciplines.

This book presents recent advances and developments in control, automation, robotics, and measuring techniques.

This book deals with a number of fundamental issues related to the practical implementation of ultrasonic NDT techniques in an industrial environment.

This book presents the basics and advanced topics of research of gamma ray physics.

The research presented here includes important contributions on the commissioning of the ATLAS experiment and the discovery of the Higgs boson.

This volume thoroughly covers scale modeling and serves as the definitive source of information on scale modeling as a powerful simplifying and clarifying tool used by scientists and engineers across many disciplines.

Matter-wave interferometry is a promising and successful way to explore truly macroscopic quantum phenomena and probe the validity of quantum theory at the borderline to the classic world.

Neutron Applications in Materials for Energy collects results and conclusions of recent neutron-based investigations of materials that are important in the development of sustainable energy.

This thesis presents neutron scattering data that contribute to the understanding of four distinct areas of condensed matter physics, including iso-compositional liquid-liquid phase transitions and the glass formation in rare earth doped BaTi2O5.

Nicola Salvi's thesis offers a remarkably cogent view of highly sophisticated NMR methods.

This book summarizes the main methods of experimental stress analysis and examines their application to various states of stress of major technical interest, highlighting aspects not always covered in the classic literature.

This book covers a very broad spectrum of experimental and theoretical activity in particle physics, from the searches for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model, to detailed studies of Quantum Chromodynamics, the B-physics sectors and the properties of hadronic matter at high energy density as realised in heavy-ion collisions.

This book presents the recent advances and developments in control, automation, robotics and measuring techniques.

This book recasts the classical Gaussian error calculus from scratch, the inducements concerning both random and unknown systematic errors.

Micro-X-ray fluorescence offers the possibility for a position- sensitive and non-destructive analysis that can be used for the analysis of non-homogeneous materials and layer systems.

This book is written for scientists involved in the calibration of viscometers.

This book reflects the results of the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Turbulent Spray Combustion.

The main goal of the book is to provide a systematic and didactic approach to the physics and technology of free-electron lasers.

The work presented in this thesis spans a wide range of experimental particle physics subjects, starting from level-1 trigger electronics to the final results of the search for Higgs boson decay and to tau lepton pairs.

Advances in the synthesis of new materials with often complex, nano-scaled structures require increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques that can probe the electronic states, the atomic magnetic moments and the magnetic microstructures responsible for the properties of these materials.

The search for gravitational radiation with optical interferometers is gaining momentum worldwide.

The book brings together the following issues:Theory of deterministic, random and discrete signals reproducible in oscillatory systems of generators;Generation of periodic signals with a specified spectrum, harmonic distortion factor and random signals with specified probability density function and spectral density;Synthesis of oscillatory system structures;Analysis of oscillatory systems with non-linear elements and oscillation amplitude stabilization systems;It considers the conditions and criteria of steady-state modes in signal generators on active four-pole elements with unidirectional and bidirectional transmission of signals and on two-pole elements; analogues of Barkhausen criteria;Optimization of oscillatory system structures by harmonic distortion level, minimization of a frequency error and set-up time of the steady state mode;Theory of construction of random signal generators;Construction of discrete and digital signal generators;Practical design of main units of generators;Practical block diagrams of both analog and digital signal generators.

The presentations at this NASA-hosted Symposium in honor of Mino Freund will touch upon the fields, to which his prolific mind has made significant contributions.

Before any kind of new physics discovery could be made at the LHC, a precise understanding and measurement of the Standard Model of particle physics' processes was necessary.

This thesis presents the first measurements of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions as reported by the ATLAS Collaboration.

Chemical reactions and growth processes on surfaces depend on the diffusion and re-orientation of the adsorbate molecules.

Neutrinos continue to be the most mysterious and, arguably, the most fascinating particles of the Standard Model as their intrinsic properties such as absolute mass scale and CP properties are unknown.

The theoretical foundations of the Standard Model of elementary particles relies on the existence of the Higgs boson, a particle which has been revealed for the first time by the experiments run at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.